Alpine Scout Leader | 6:03 p.m. June 24, 2009
I went out to the first chain. I really wanted to go where all - well, most - of the young scouts were going, to be able to see that view. But as I thought of the family I had, my good job, and the goals in life I had yet to accomplish, I decided to bag the idea of going out there. I waited while everyone else came back over the next hour or so, and I listened serenely (but a little enviously) as they bragged about how hairy it was to get to the lookout.

As the wise old sage, Clint Eastwood, put it, "A man's got to know his limitations..."

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